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African Rhythm and African Sensibility : Aesthetics and Social Action in African Musical Idioms
African Rhythm and African Sensibility Aesthetics and Social Action in African Musical Idioms
Author: John Miller Chernoff
"We have in this book a Rosetta stone for mediating, or translating, African musical behavior and aesthetics."--Andrew Tracey, African Music — "John Miller Chernoff, who spent 10 years studying African drumming, has a flair for descriptive writing, and his first-person narratives should be easily understood by any reader, while ringing unm...  more »
ISBN-13: 9780226103457
ISBN-10: 0226103455
Publication Date: 10/15/1981
Pages: 280
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Publisher: University Of Chicago Press
Book Type: Paperback
Other Versions: Hardcover, Audio Cassette
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